Right to Information: India

Publications and Articles

Booklets / Pamphlets

• The Right to Information and Panchayati Raj Institutions: Madhya Pradesh as a Case Study (2006), written by Sohini Paul and Edited by Charmaine Rodrigues.
• Karnataka Right to Information Act 2000 (2005), CHRI.
• Soochana Swatantrata Adhiniyam 2002 ka Vistrit Vishleshan va Samshodhan Hetu Sifarishen (2004).
• Karnataka Right to Information Act, user guide
• Maharashtra Right to Information Act, user guide
• Delhi Right to Information Act, User Guide
• Soochna Ka Adhikaar, Kuch Jaankaariyaan Kuch Vichaar
• Dilli Vale Kuch Nahi Jaante- Pamphlet on the Delhi Right to Information Act
• Aapka Soochna Ka Adhikaar
• Band Darvaze Kab Khulenge?
• Look at FOI Bill 2000 Now!! (2000), Abha Singhal Joshi
• Right to Information in South Asia (1999), edited by Abha Singhal joshi
• Legislating Freedom of Information: India in Comparative Perspective (1999), Dr. Vikram Khub Chand
• Submissions to Legislators on a Right to Information Law (1998), Abha Singhal Joshi
• Your Right to Information (1997), Abha Singhal Joshi

• Your Right to Information (English)

• Aapka Soochna ka Adhikaar (Hindi)

• Soochna Swatantra Vidhayak: Kya Band Darwaje Khulega? By Abha Singla Joshi, CHRI, 2000. (Hindi)

• Aapnaar Shoochana Raakher Odhikaar (Bangla)

• Soochna ka adhikaar-kuch jaankaariyaan kuch vichaar (Hindi). Some basic information and developments on the issue, including an article on the concept of social audits (jan sunwais ) as used in Rajasthan, India.

• Look at the Freedom of Information Bill 2000 NOW!, CHRI, 2000. (English)

• Delhi Right to Information by Deepika Mogilishetty and Debashish Sankhari, CHRI, 2002. Reprinted in 2003.

• Legislation/Draft Bills on Right to Information in India, CHRI.

• Your right to Information by Abbha Singhal Joshi, CHRI, 1997. (Reprinted in 1998, 199, 2001)

• Submissions to Legislature on a Right to Information Law by Abha Joshi, CHRI, 2000

• Submissions to Legislature on a Right to Information Law-Freedom of Information Bill, 2001.

• Critiques and Submissions

• Comments and Recommendations for a Right to Information Law on the draft prepared by the governmental committee on Right to Information in 1997.

• Submissions to Members of Parliament on a Right to Information Law. A brief capsule of the key issues for legislators on the contents of a good right to information law.

Papers

• The movement for right to information in India: People's Power for the control of corruption by Harsh Mander and Abha Joshi on advocacy on the right to information based on the Indian experience, presented at the Conference on Pan Commonwealth Advocacy held in Harare in January 1999

• Legislating for Freedom of Information---India in Comparative Perspective by Vikram Khub Chand, a comparative analysis of India's draft bills with standards in some other countries.

Articles

• Romance with Right to Information by Prof. Manubhai Shah

• Masters or cyber-coolies? by Praful Bidwai

• The Freedom of Information Bill 2002---A comparative perspective by Deepika Mogilishetty-Farias, CHRI

• Development on Right to Information in India from Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.

• The Importance of Right to Information in Education: Putting a Human Face on a Fundamental Right by Sandy Feinzig and Swasti Rana, CHRI

• Jan Sunvai: Right to Information now a reality By Swasti Rana, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

• The Movement For Right To Information In India: People's Power for the Control of Corruption by Harsh Mander and Abha Joshi

• Paranoia, Vested Interests and the Indian State by Bharat Karnad

• Right to Information as a Human Right and Developments in India--- Presentation at Sarai by Debashish Sankhari, CHRI

• The Relevance of a Freedom of Information Act by Cushrow Irani

• The Right To Information Law In India----A Comparative Picture by Rani Advani

• Unending Struggle for Right to Information by Madhav Godbole

• Where did our money go? A Parivartan Jansunvai from Parivartan

• Open Sesame? By Prashant Bhusan